On Tuesday 4 December took place the Open Science & Innovation Forum at the Hotel Campus UAB, a space for interaction and networking for industry and research. The forum brought together more than 250 participants, including researchers and companies.

Marta Montpeyó scored the highest entrance mark in the field of biosciences. Enrolled in the degree in Biomedical Sciences, she explains the reasons why she chose the UAB to begin her university experience.

Random variables without finite moments of all orders are not at present a pathology, but a central subject in probability theory. From the Saint Petersburg paradox, dated at the beginning of the eighteenth century, until the non-Gaussian stable distributions and Lévy flights, a very beautiful theory has been developed, at which, we will take a quick glance. We will finish with some applications to different situations as a taste of the importance of this theory in mathematical modelling. Specifically, we will consider asset prices modelling, the study of earthquakes, a new view to the classical Saint Petersburg paradox, and finally the evolution of the mean temperature in the North Atlantic sea over the last 250,000 years.

Random variables without finite moments of all orders are not at present a pathology, but a central subject in probability theory. From the Saint Petersburg paradox, dated at the beginning of the eighteenth century, until the non-Gaussian stable distributions and Lévy flights, a very beautiful theory has been developed, at which, we will take a quick glance. We will finish with some applications to different situations as a taste of the importance of this theory in mathematical modelling. Specifically, we will consider asset prices modelling, the study of earthquakes, a new view to the classical Saint Petersburg paradox, and finally the evolution of the mean temperature in the North Atlantic sea over the last 250,000 years.